José Ángel Valente QUOTES

1 " De ti no quedan más
que estos fragmentos rotos.
Que alguien los recoja con amor, te deseo,
los tenga junto a sí y no los deje
totalmente morir en esta noche
de voraces sombras, donde tú ya indefenso
todavía palpitas. "

― José Ángel Valente , Fragmentos de un libro futuro

2 " ¿de que lado de mi cuerpo estabas, alma, que no me socorrías? "

― José Ángel Valente

3 " In the sand I draw a double parallel line as a sign of the infinite duration of this dream "

― José Ángel Valente , Landscape with Yellow Birds

4 " The bodies remained on the lonely side of love
as if negating each other without negating desire
and in this negotiation a knot stronger than themselves
indefinitely bound them together.

What did their eyes and their hands know,
or their skin, which held a body
against the breath of another, and gave birth to
that slow immobile light,
the solitary form of desire? "

― José Ángel Valente , Landscape with Yellow Birds

5 " In the mirror your image has faded. I could no longer see you when I looked at myself. "

― José Ángel Valente , Landscape with Yellow Birds

6 " To forget. To forget everything. To open windows to daylight. "

― José Ángel Valente